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Karl Amadeus Hartmann.was born on 2 August 1905 in Munich and came into contact with art and music at an early stage. He studied trombone and composition at the Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich from 1924 to 1929. He hated Nazism and Hitler and anything that ranked extreme socialism and communism. A fellow composer,…
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The one thing I can be sure of after posting this blog is that my contact details will be checked a lot, especially by the likes of the “‘Polish League Against Defamation,” and will probably be followed with threats. Unfortunately, there are groups in Poland who will go to great lengths to get any bit…
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In 1964, Heineken, one of the world’s most renowned beer companies, ventured into a groundbreaking project that fused sustainability, innovation, and corporate social responsibility. This initiative, led by Heineken’s visionary chairman Alfred “Freddy” Heineken, sought to address two pressing global issues: housing shortages in underprivileged regions and the environmental problem of waste from discarded beer…
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Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of Indian royalty and a British special agent, is remembered for her extraordinary bravery during World War II. Born in 1914 in Moscow to an Indian Sufi mystic father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, and an American mother, Noor was raised in a spiritual and intellectual household. Her early life was marked…
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“Reached the age of 9 years” may seem like a very matter of fact and brutal title , but the brutal honesty is many of the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust did not even reach that age. Reached the age of 9 years should never be said of any child as the age…
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In the years 535 and 536, several remarkable aberrations in world climate took place. They were the most severe and protracted short-term episodes of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2 Millennia. Including bizarrely low-temperatures, with snow fall during the summer months in some locations; widespread crop-failures and famine; greatly decreased levels of…
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The photograph above is of Gezina de Leeuwe-de Jong with her four children. I presume the photo was taken by her husband and the father of the children, Louis de Leeuw. I reckon that’s why he is not in the picture. He was a son of Barend de Leeuwe and Sientje van Minden. He married…
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On 17 August 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged above southern England, Pilot Officer William Meade Lindsley “Billy” Fiske III died in a hospital in Chichester. He was just 29 years old. An American citizen serving in the Royal Air Force, Fiske had been badly burned when his Hawker Hurricane was hit by German…
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Eva was born on 1 January 1924, in Oleszyce, Poland, a small community where over half of the people were Jews. She had seven siblings, and she was the oldest. Her father, was a wealthy merchant and head of the Oleszyce Jewish community. He had an international business that distributed religious articles, including Torahs and…
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In the great annals of American history, there are certain dates that echo across the decades: July 4, 1776; December 7, 1941; July 20, 1969. And then, of course, January 26, 1998 — the day President Bill Clinton stood before the nation, wagged his finger at the camera, and gave us the immortal line: “I…
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